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Abstract
After reviewing the pacifist tradition of German foreign policy, this article explores the shock of the Russian unleashing of a war on European soil. The article then proceeds to explain the various dimensions of German support for Ukraine, especially in increased military spending and energy uncoupling from Moscow. While conceding that German help often arrived slowly, the article nonetheless depicts the dramatic shift in German policy, which has ushered in a new period in defending democracy with military force.
Contributor Notes
Klaus Larres is the Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History & International Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, USA. At present he is also a Global Europe & Kissinger China Institute Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Larres served as a counselor and senior policy adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing, China (2018). He also worked as a Fellow at Germany's leading think tank, the Institute of International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin where he dealt with Germany's security and China policy. He recently was a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. At UNC he is also the director of the Krasno Global Affairs & Business Council/Krasno Global Events Series. Larres’ policy and research expertise includes current economic, security, and political relations, US–China–EU/Germany; transatlantic relations, US, German, British, Russian and EU foreign policies; the Global Cold War and twentieth-century international history. Email: larres@unc.edu